Musica nova examines musical dialogues across the Atlantic

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Finland’s largest contemporary music festival, Musica nova Helsinki, has published its upcoming programme. The festival will be held during 1–10 February 2019.

”This year’s festival explores many examples of cross-Atlantic musical and cultural dialogues – at a time when North America and Europe may be drifting apart politically. But on the contrary, a new generation of [...] Read more

Ensemble intercontemporain will perform at Musica nova

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This iconic contemporary music orchestra returns to Helsinki after a decade away!

Founded by Pierre Boulez in 1976, the Ensemble intercontemporain has earned its place as the world’s most esteemed chamber orchestra with a passion for contemporary music. Based in Paris, the orchestra is comprised of 31 top musicians specialising in 20th and 21st-century music. The [...] Read more

Musica nova Helsinki thanks its audience!

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Musica nova Helsinki gathered together 7 600 people to the concerts and lectures organized during the festival. Over half a million people followed the festival through Yle’s radio emissions and streamed concerts.

Musica nova thanks everyone involved and welcomes you all to the next festival in February 2019! The exact dates will be published later.

European premiere of Grawemeyer Award-winning Play at Musica nova Helsinki

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The Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra is to perform Play by American composer Andrew Norman at the opening concert of Musica nova Helsinki on February 1. Recent winner of the Grawemeyer Award, Play will replace the premiere of Tyondai Braxton’s TELEKINESIS.

The Boston Modern Orchestra Project performed “Play’s” premiere in 2013, and released a recording on its [...] Read more

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Matthew Herbert to perform at Musica nova

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The experimental producer, DJ and musician Matthew Herbert will perform at Musica nova on the 5th of February. His latest record The Music was released in 2016 – as a book.

“Somewhere buried in the last 100 years between the invention of the microphone, the tape machine, the sampler and the computer, music has undergone a [...] Read more

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Festival tabloid published!

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The Musica nova Helsinki tabloid features articles and presentations of the festival’s artists and composers. It’s distributed in the Helsinki center, at the festival venues, libraries and cafés. The articles are mostly in Finnish.

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Whole program published!

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Contemporary art music meets modern electronic at Musica nova Helsinki. Alongside new classical music the festival, under the theme of Open Spaces, will also be focusing more strongly than before on electronic music and avant-garde pop.

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Finnish premiere of Michel van der Aa’s Blank Out at Musica nova

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A breathtaking combination of opera, 3D-media, poetry, eighties beats and techno. Blank Out pushes operatic boundaries taking the art form to a next level. Nova and the Finnish National Opera is proud to bring the opera to Finland so soon after its world premiere, already hailed as historic.

Musica nova 2017 opening concert released

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The opening concert of Music nova 2017, conducted by new Artistic Director André de Ridder, features both world and Finnish premieres: two fresh voices of the next generation of Finnish composers as well as two internationally renowned composers, who represent groundbreaking developments of contemporary classical music in the 21st century.